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Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein,
LLP, is a fifty-plus attorney law firm with offices in San Francisco, New
York and Nashville. We are a law firm that represents only
plaintiffs. For over thirty years, our trial lawyers have successfully
represented plaintiffs in individual, class and group cases in the fields
of personal injury and mass torts, securities fraud, employment discrimination
and unlawful employment practices, product defect, antitrust, consumer
protection, aviation, environmental and toxic exposure, and human rights.
Our
attorneys enjoy
a national reputation for professional integrity and the successful prosecution
of our clients' claims. We possess sophisticated legal skills and the financial
resources necessary to handle large, complex cases, and to take on some
of the world's largest corporations. For the last seven years, we
have been ranked as one of the top plaintiffs' law firms in the United
States by the National
Law Journal.
Lieff Cabraser's Global Network of Websites
Lieff Cabraser.com is
our firm's main website, providing information on our comprehensive
and diverse practice, including the areas of law for:
Practice-Area Specific Websites
Legal Information Weblogs (Blogs)
Lawsuit-Specific Websites
Employment/Employee Rights Cases
Personal Injury Cases
Antitrust | Other Cases
- Gasoline Price-Fixing Lawsuit provides information on antitrust litigation against CITGO Petroleum Corporation, Saudi Aramco, the Saudi Arabian government's oil company, and Motiva, the Russian government's oil company, for conspiring with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), to fix the price of gasoline and other oil-based products in the United States.
- Viking Window Class Action offers information relating to a pending class action lawsuit against Viking Industries, Inc. for defects in their Viking Series 3000 windows.
- Global Justice Forum - Over the past several years, Robert L. Lieff and Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, have sponsored the Global Justice Forum, a series of conferences that have brought together hundreds of lawyers from over 35 countries on six continents, laying the foundation for a network of plaintiffs' counsel worldwide.
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